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PSDI delivers keynote address at Timor-Leste public-private roundtable
PSDI Financing Growth Team Leader Peter Dirou delivers thekeynote address at a Timor-Leste roundtable event examiningchallenges facing the country’s private sector.Peter Dirou, PSDI’s Financing Growth...
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PSDI featured in SME financing report
PSDI’s work in three countries has been featured in a new book published by the Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion.The book, Enhancing SME Access to Finance: Case Studies, is comprised of 23...
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PSDI-led reforms endorsed in Australian Government report on private sector...
A report by the Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade has endorsed PSDI reforms and drawn on numerous inputs from PSDI’s submission to the Committee.The...
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Private sector assessment for Timor-Leste released
Policies and programs that promote private sector development will maximize Timor-Leste’s opportunities to generate sustainable and secure sources of wealth.This is one of the key messages from PSDI’s...
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PSDI's annual Partner's Retreat wraps up in Sydney
PSDI's annual, three-day Partners Retreat wrapped up in Sydney today.The Retreat was attended attended by representatives from the Government of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade...
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Women's professional leadership pilot project launched in Tonga
Participants at the first training session of PSDI's women's business leadership pilot project in Nuku'alofa, Tonga on 25 August, 2015. Also pictured are PSDI's Gender Expert Vijaya Nagarajan and pilot...
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Online business registry launched in Vanuatu
Vanuatu Financial Services Commission (VFSC) Commissioner George Andrews, PSDI Business Law Reform Expert Aaron Levine (seated), VFSC Board Deputy Chairman Lionel Kalaut and ADB Pacific Liaison and...
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Timor-leste private sector assessment translated into Tetum
Growing the Non-Oil Economy, PSDI's private sector assessment for Timor-Leste, has been translated into Tetum.The translation into Timor-Leste's most-spoken official language will allow the insights...
View ArticleVideo: women's small business pilot project in Solomon Islands
This PSDI pilot project in Solomon Islands saw female dependents of factory workers supported to create a sustainable, formal business through uniform manufacturing. In this short video they discuss...
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PSDI publishes private sector assessment for Samoa
PSDI's Samoa private sector assessment, Reform Renewed, has been launched in Apia. The report looks at constraints to investment and entrepreneurship. It recommends reforms that will benefit the...
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Cook Islands private sector assessment published
PSDI has published its first private sector assessment for the Cook Islands. Cook Islands: Stronger Investment Climate for Sustainable Growth, was launched at Rarotonga at the Pacific region's Forum...
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PSDI-backed secured transactions reform to extend access to credit in PNG
Andrea Iffland, Regional Director of ADB's Pacific Liaison and Coordination Office,speaks at the launch of PNG's secured transactions registry at the Crowne Plaza Hotelin Port Moresby.PORT MORESBY,...
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Latest PSDI Progress Report shows more reforms delivering outcomes
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (15 February 2016) – A significant and increasing number of reforms supported by the Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI) are resulting in legislative and structural...
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Women's Business Leadership pilot project wraps up in Tonga
Graduates of PSDI’s Women’s Business Leadership pilot project in Nuku’alofa, Tonga on March 2: (back row left to right) Ofeina Filimoehala, Tonga Development Bank; Siosina Paongo, Tonga Development...
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PSDI's strategy for supporting women's economic empowerment
A new PSDI publication explains how the economic empowerment of women is integrated throughout our work. Empowering the Other Halfprovides an overview of what PSDI has done and will be doing next to...
View ArticleVideo: How secured transactions are helping Tongan vanilla farmers fund crop...
This short Wall Street Journal documentary examines how PSDI is supporting the use of Tonga's secured transactions framework to enable vanilla farmers to fund the rejuvenation and expansion of their...
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PSDI workshop in Solomon Islands marks beginning of business registry reform...
Participants at PSDI’s first workshop on the upgrading of business registries inSolomon Islands: the Solomon Islands Foreign Investment Registry, SolomonIslands online companies registry Company Haus,...
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Playing the long game for private sector reform in the Pacific
Port operations in Suva, Fiji.By Paul Holden, PSDI Lead EconomistOver the past decade, the ADB-supported Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI) has made significant gains, and we have...
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PSDI hosts Pacific leaders meeting on SOE reform
Participants at PSDI's SOE reform meeting along with SOE Reform Specialist Christopher Russel (rear left), ADB Pacific Liaison and Coordination Office Regional Director Andrea Iffland (front, third...
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PSDI policy brief: state-owned enterprise reform
PSDI has released its first ‘policy brief’.PSDI policy briefs articulate the context and rationale underpinning the support PSDI provides through each of its five core work areas.This first policy...
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